Why do I have to learn lessons the hard way?

[PigButtons]

Gravely, If you have a dog you might think of training it to sniff out primers.

Slightly different venue but I'm on my forth wife. Took me three failures to learn what a good woman is like. Now, thanks to the blessings of God, I have a fantastic marriage/wife. Took some errors but finally learned.

I think I saw it here but I like "Trial and success," better than the more common turn of the phrase.

 

[gravelyctry]

That's almost as bad as having 10 cases loaded ready to seat bullets and accidently bump the tray they are sitting in and see powder laying all around on the loading bench. LOL. Yep, happened to me recently. Oh well, u just dump all 10 back in start over and feel a little cheated that u loaded 20 but only got to shoot 10.

I learned that lesson the hard way too. I switched to seating after charging each case to avoid repeating it. Thanks

 

[Kracken McGraw]

When you pull the pin/clip out of the tube you might lay it back in your flip tray. It has worked for me so far, knock-on-wood.

 

[danny]

Finally got around to priming cases that i had prepped over the winter. I use an RCBS bench mounted primer, which works well for me.

i Was a bit extra conscious since I didn’t want to make amy mistakes that might cost me primers. I’m generally pretty cautious anyway, but maybe on heightened alert today. Any how, first sleeve of primers loaded into the tube and pressed into cases with no problems, just like the thousands of rounds I’ve done before.

put the next sleeve of primers on the tray and picked them all up, but when I turned and flipped the tube to put it into the RCBS base, I flung the primers all over the bench and onto the floor. I forgot to put the little pin through the tube. I crawled around for the next half hour trying to find them all, but only managed to get 99 of them.

Why can’t I find an easier way to learn these lessons? Just a bit frustrated with myself. Neil

Just be glad that you learn from your mistakes. None of us are perfect, but there are people that exist that are doomed to never learn from their mistakes.

Danny

 

[SSL]

Brain fades happen. No different than forgetting to close the gate on your ChargeMaster powder measure before pouring new powder in. I've done that once or a dozen times.

 

[jpx2rk]

I bet if you went barefooted in that room you would have found that rouge primer.

 

[MislMan]

When searching for errant primers, turn out the lights and use a flashlight for your final search. This is last resort after your plain eyesight search.

 

[K22]

The Bad News: it gets worse with age!

The Good News: it's matter of disciplining yourself to totally focus on the task at hand to eliminate those kinds of mistakes. No easy endeavor if you have a lot of issues going on in your life. The more costly the mistake, the less apt you are to repeat it.

This will make you feel better: several years ago I dropped a varmint rifle with a Leupold scope on my concrete basement floor which shattered the scope because I was rushing around and not paying attention.

 

[Minshooter]

A variation:
Load a ladder test of 100 rounds, in ten round rows in ammo box.
Make a detailed label on top of box, but do not mark the rounds.
Then, have the box tip on side and pop open in transit, with all 100 sliding out into a pile.

-Why I now mark every test round with a sharpie, before it goes into the box.

 

[Coonman300]

My issue is that just cause I did something stupid once...doesn’t mean I’m not man enough (or stupid) to do it again!!

 

[GotRDid]

Just be glad that you learn from your mistakes. None of us are perfect, but there are people that exist that are doomed to never learn from their mistakes.

Danny

So, you have met my Boss?!?
GotRDid.

 

[gravelyctry]

When you pull the pin/clip out of the tube you might lay it back in your flip tray. It has worked for me so far, knock-on-wood.

That is a great suggestion! I was trying to think how to prevent myself from repe this mistake, and was trying to come up with some sort of spring loaded detented pin but your ideas much better. Thanks!

 

[Capt. Oblivious]

Thursday evening I have a tray full of prepped and primed brass waiting to get filled with powder.
Take out a can of VV N160 to fill up the CM lite and while I unscrew the blue cap on the powder my phone rings, answer the phone and continue to fill the CM with powder. The strange thing is the powder goes in but the "hopper" doesn't fill, took me about 5 seconds to realize that the little drain door is open....N160 all over the place

 

[Homerange]

Drain hopper, close drain. How hard can that be ?
I've done it once and only once.

Evolving and improving all reloading methodology is never ending.

 

[justpassinthru]

If it's any consolation, I did the same thing a week or so ago, forgot to put the pin in, and slung primers everywhere.
Arthritis forced me to give up my hand priming tools and I really like the RCBS bench mounted one.
I use Dillon tubes with the Dillon followers. Had to drill a second hole farther up so the tube would sit all the way down before pulling the pin, but now it works 100% of the time as long as I remember the pin

 

[SShooterZ]

Thursday evening I have a tray full of prepped and primed brass waiting to get filled with powder.
Take out a can of VV N160 to fill up the CM lite and while I unscrew the blue cap on the powder my phone rings, answer the phone and continue to fill the CM with powder. The strange thing is the powder goes in but the "hopper" doesn't fill, took me about 5 seconds to realize that the little drain door is open....N160 all over the place

I may look like I’m laughing but those are actually tears in my eyes from doing the same thing.

 

[TheOtherZilla]

That's almost as bad as having 10 cases loaded ready to seat bullets and accidently bump the tray they are sitting in and see powder laying all around on the loading bench. LOL. Yep, happened to me recently. Oh well, u just dump all 10 back in start over and feel a little cheated that u loaded 20 but only got to shoot 10.

That's why I only load one round at a time. That way I only have to clean up the mess of powder that falls out of the primer hole. Or when I spill it, which is every session. Artritus is a biatch.

 

[Homerange]

That's why I only load one round at a time. That way I only have to clean up the mess of powder that falls out of the primer hole. Or when I spill it, which is every session. Artritus is a biatch.

Another that should consider modifying their loading technique.
Before you charge a case you should have all cases primer up and you will never charge a case without a primer again.

 

[D55]

School of hard knocks?

 

[SSL]

Nearly 60 years of loading and I still make the occasional mess. Of course I'm just a mere mortal...